San Carlos, 7:50. I am boarding a panga to El Castillo. It's a slow ride. Tere are two boat services to San Juan del Nicaragua, which is also called San Juan del Norte.
Another name is Greytown. I think these were two merged into one settlings.

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Boarding the panga.

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All ready to go.

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And we are moving! It will be about two and a half hours to El Castillo.

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I wouldn't say the boat ride is very exciting in comparison to let's say Mekong in Vietnam and Cambodia, or other boat trips in South East Asia.
But it's OK.

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There pass some dwellings along the way.

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The far right end, a woman doing loundry.

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An occasional boat.

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There were many stops on the way, dropping people off in seemingly middle of nowhere. Also, the military check points. Too many of them. During one stop
I snapped this photos of plants living on a tree. There is an amazing variety of parasitic plants growing on trees, and they seem to hetting along well, without any
bad effects on the host.

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A local with a bunch of belts and other stuff for sale. Nicas with wads of belts, hammocks, watches, sunglasses and wahtever they can carry for sale are a quite common sight in
parks, boats and buses.

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We went into a smaller river to our major stop before El Castillo - the capital of the area, Boca de Sabalos.

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The pier at Boca de Sabalos.

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A short stop, and we are moving again.

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Full throttle on Rio San Juan.

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Half an hour and we are arriving at El Castillo.

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The first photo of 'el castillo' - the fortress build by the Spanish to stop the French and Dutch pirates.